Zoë B. Corwin on KPCC and LAist: Can This Social Game Keep Struggling Students In College?

Pullias Center researchers debuted an innovative digital initiative to bolster first-year persistence at California State University, Dominguez Hills last fall. Called Charge On!, the social campaign is now starting to get initial data—and received coverage on KPCC and LAist, with quotes from Pullias faculty member Zoë B. Corwin, the lead researcher on this project:

Charge On reached a milestone last week. On a quarterly visit to the campus to talk to students who signed up and reward them for using the platform, the program’s researchers said initial data suggests positive results.

“We are showing that if students participated in the online campaign, they had higher rates of persisting to the next semester,” Corwin said.

She believes many of the policy discussions about improving college student graduation rates in Sacramento or within the CSU system office lack consideration on the personal skills students can use after graduation. Corwin believes Charge On’s resources help students learn those skills.

“Are they thriving, are they feeling happy on a college campus and then are they able to make connection to the next step?” Corwin said.

Hear the story onon KPCC  and read the full article at LAist. Learn more about the Pullias Center’s Digital Equity in Education project.